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Author Archives: annahaensch
Getting Primed For Halloween
Maybe it’s the chill in the air or the changing leaves, maybe it’s the ache in my belly from too much candy corn, but whatever the reason, I’ve been in the mood for spooky halloween things this past week. I’ve … Continue reading
Posted in Number Theory, Recreational Mathematics
Tagged Carl Pomerance, Cube, Math Movies, prime factors
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Take Me Out To The Stats Game!
Recently, I was hanging out watching the Pirates crumble under the pressure of a wild card game and someone asked me a really good question. Supposing you were busy taking selfies and missed a few plays, but you noticed that … Continue reading
Posted in Applied Math, Data Science, Math Education
Tagged Baseball, Laura McLay, Sharon Jones, Sports Analytics, Tim Chartier
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That Time Terence Tao Won $500 From Paul Erdős
Suppose you have some arbitrary sequence of 1 and -1, something like this 1, 1, -1, -1, -1, 1, 1, 1, 1, 1, -1, -1, …. And suppose you start plucking entries from fixed intervals and adding them together. For … Continue reading
A Cheap Alternative To Pricey Journals
I’ve written before about the Elsevier boycott and the current shift in community feelings about the traditional journal model. Namely, that it stinks. The traditional journal model, that is. This morning while perusing my Monday morning blogroll I found something … Continue reading
Long Live The Blank Slate
It’s the first day of school. I always loved this feeling as a kid. You’ve got your shiny new notebooks, freshly sharpened pencils, and your first day outfit all ironed and ready to go. Nothing can really compete will that … Continue reading
Math Fought The Law, And The Law Won
Math is full of laws: group laws in abstract algebra, the law of sines in trigonometry, and De Morgan’s law in set theory, to name a few. And occasionally, the law is full of math. That was the certainly the … Continue reading
In Praise of Teamwork
Part of what makes math blogging so interesting is that it helps to build connections between the people creating math and those consuming math. The evolution in math blogging and blossoming of math on twitter has done a great deal … Continue reading
Posted in Number Theory, people in math, Uncategorized
Tagged David Farmer, LMFDB, Terrence Tao
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Talking ‘Art of Mathematics’ With Its Creators
This week I was at the Inquiry Based Learning (IBL) Workshop in San Luis Obispo and I had the rare and wonderful occasion to sit down for dinner with a great team of bloggers and get to know them a … Continue reading
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An Ugly Song That Definitely Won’t Get Stuck In Your Head. I Promise.
If you’ve ever had the hook from Call Me Maybe stuck in your head for three days, you know the power of a well-patterend musical hook. It’s these patterns in music that speak to our human brains and often help … Continue reading
Posted in Mathematics and the Arts
Tagged John P. Costas, Math and Music, Scott Rickard, Solomon W. Golomb, TED Talk
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Happy Deep Fried Torus Day
Last Friday was National Doughnut Day and I hope everyone celebrated accordingly. Aside from being delicious with a cup of coffee, these sweet treats are a great way to think about math. From simple brain teasers to advances in quantum … Continue reading
Posted in Events, Math Education
Tagged BedtimeMath, Mathesia, Mathjokes4mathyfolks, National Doughnut Day, YummyMath
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